>I will be representing the school
>tour program for Sacramento's Old City Cemetery (ca
>1849) which I manage.
>I am trying to devise something that kids can take
>with them from our table to go with the tour brochure.

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April 26, 2002

Another idea is to list on a sheet of paper the names of several of
the inhabitants, perhaps with a map of the general area where they're
buried, and ask the students to determine how old the person was when
they died.  (You may want to not include anyone who died young for
fear of scaring someone.)

By the way, do you know the greatest fear of a very, very old person
in the last century (yes, I know, but as a historian it's hard for me
to call it "century-before-last").  Their greatest fear, now that all
their relatives and friends of the same age were gone, was that God
had forgotten them, and they were doomed to live forever.  Think
about it - would that not be a terrifying thought?

For years I could think of no way to relieve their terror except for
the obvious.  But then it occurred to me: suppose the person was
fortunate enough to have a friend of an equal age, and with the same
terrible fear.  And suppose the two friends had been consoling each
other for years about the problem.  But then the friends dies.  Would
not that bring some sort of morbid relief to the survivor?

-Jim
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